My thoughts* on ACIM Workbook Lesson 222, August 10, 2025, * GOD IS with Me

Debra (Debi) Yvonne Simmons

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God is with me.

I live and move in Him.

* I have come to understand this on another ‘level’ and am beginning to understand that it is quite literal.

1. God is with me.

* This is not the same thing as saying that God IS me. For HE embodies or embraces the Whole of what we are as His entire creation. So, NO ONE can claim that. Nor can they claim that they are the “fullness” of the Son of God because that is all that is or ever could be, and it is not even fully experienced yet, and as I understand it, never will be.

²He is my Source of life, the life within, the air I breathe, the food by which I am sustained, the water which renews and cleanses me.

* Wow, think of that! There is literally nothing that God is not a part of or that is outside of God.

³He is my home, wherein I live and move; the Spirit which directs my actions, offers me Its Thoughts, and guarantees my safety from all pain.

* You might want to read that one again, slowly. Isn’t it powerful?!!

⁴He covers me with kindness and with care, and holds in love the Son He shines upon, who also shines on Him.

⁵How still is he who knows the truth of what He speaks today!

2. Father, we have no words except Your Name upon our lips and in our minds, as we come quietly into Your Presence now, and ask to rest with You in peace a while.

* Hmm. There is no “a while” about it, once you have found that GOD IS, and it really sinks into your psyche. That is a peace that cannot leave you, regardless of circumstance or emotions. I do respect the fact that it might take some time to grow into it. But it will come. I carry it within me and have since I received a witness of the Atonement in 2020.

(ACIM, W-222.1:1–2:1)

Till next time, God bless, debi.

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